Spiderpodium, with its eight bendable arms, is a rubber-coated wire gadget that can hold virtually any small electronic device in place. Its arms can be bent in any shape or form and will hold their position, and it can hold items while balanced on a flat surface or suspended from unusually-shaped objects, like the air vents of a car.

Median pay for part-time workers met double-digit losses in almost every local jurisdiction, falling 28 percent in Fairfax County in 2007 and 2008, and dropping a third for those in Howard County, according to an analysis of the 2009 American Community Survey.

An internal investigation by the Prince George's County Police Department officials has cleared officers of any wrongdoing after it was thought they were involved in a cheating operation at the department's training academy.